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CBS premiered its new Star Trek series "Discovery" on Sunday. The first episode was made available on OTA (over-the-air) CBS stations — but it and all subsequent episodes are available strictly on CBS's All Access streaming service. Cost is $6/month with ads, $10/month ad-free. (NOTE: The second episode was made available immediately after episode 1 aired. Episodes 3-7 will be released weekly, there will be a break, and then the remaining episodes will again be released weekly early in 2018.)
Ars Technica has a review that mostly praised the new show. (There were at least two technical inaccuracies in the review concerning the first episode.)
For those who may not yet have seen it, I kindly ask folks who comment on this story to make liberal use of the <spoiler>don't show this unless they click here</spoiler> tags.
What did you think? Was it entertaining? Did it hold closely [enough] to existing Star Trek canon? Was any 'ideology' change you saw sufficiently warranted?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:36PM (4 children)
That's from the review. I don't know jack shit about Star Trek, but I remember seeing part of one episode where they were communicating with a hologram while on a space ship. I think it was that Spaceport 9 series. I remember thinking that the special effects looked really primitive even for the 1990s or whenever the hell Spaceport 9 was made. The low quality of the effects made me change the channel to something else.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:59PM
They stole it from Star Wars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:27PM (1 child)
Whoever wrote the part you're quoting is an idiot unless they mean ST:ENT and ST:TOS only. ST:VOY had a number of episodes involving holographic transmissions through the Pathfinder array in both directions.
I was debating whether I was going to allow this as canon in my mind. Officially, it is canon, according to the Content Producers. So I consulted the ship computer [wikia.com].
Granted, only one episode of ST:TAS is canon, and it's not that one.
I remember reading about, I think it was Star Trek Continues [wikipedia.org], but one of the fan continuations of the famous Five Year Mission, that there was planned to be holographic technology in the ST:TOS 4th season in 1970. Obviously, we never got an official 4th season.
So this is fine.
(Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:23AM
Being mistaken about some branch of the Star Trek lore makes a person an idiot?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:35PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves